War Thunder, Warframe and Blacklight: Retribution.

What are everyones general thoughts on these free titles?
I haven't done an excessive amount of research into them I'm kinda just impulsively deciding whether or not to download them.
I hear that they're extremely buggy with horrid servers, Warframe especially.
Is it even worth the hassle of downloading? Or are any of them absolute must-have titles...

(DCUO wasn't mentioned in this f2p title post because I already have it and my hero is aaaaaaaaawesome.)

War Thunder -awesome (IMHO)
War Frame - complex and a bit samey but still worth a try. Huge progression and upgrade system.
Blacklight - I quite enjoyed this. Fast paced FPS fun with a some uniqueness.

All of them are worth giving a go. War a Thunder is my favourite though.

WarThunder - My favourite of the bunch, all of the planes feel different, they all fire differently and the controls work really nicely indeed. I'm quite amazed out how accurate the joysticks were.
Warframe - Great for a quick jump in for an hour or less just to kill things. It's a bit of a grind to get any of the decent stuff but the further you get into the game the better it gets.
DCUO - A very good fun action based MMO that is quite different compared to everything else and plays differently too. If you prefer action over standing still to cast then you'll like this.
Blacklight - Buggy mess in every sense of the word. Tried playing it several times but it's heavily laggy, multi clipping issues with geometry, crazy amount of falling through the floor, and I've also walked through walls on some occasions.

I've only got to play Blacklight so far, and honestly it is buggy, but I haven't experienced falling through the floor or going through walls at all. Just some lag issues really which is common for a game still in beta, other than that it's enjoyable in my opinion.

WarThunder - My favourite of the bunch, all of the planes feel different, they all fire differently and the controls work really nicely indeed. I'm quite amazed out how accurate the joysticks were.
Warframe - Great for a quick jump in for an hour or less just to kill things. It's a bit of a grind to get any of the decent stuff but the further you get into the game the better it gets.
DCUO - A very good fun action based MMO that is quite different compared to everything else and plays differently too. If you prefer action over standing still to cast then you'll like this.
Blacklight - Buggy mess in every sense of the word. Tried playing it several times but it's heavily laggy, multi clipping issues with geometry, crazy amount of falling through the floor, and I've also walked through walls on some occasions.

When Planetside 2 comes out then things are going to change.

Was the first planetside a F2P on PS3? I recall playing a game where the characters were like the Sand People from Tattooine in Star Wars, but the map was a snowy one, and you could get into two legged tank things, much like the Metal Gear Solid Gekko.
If so when is that due for release? I thought that was a fantastic game!

Also thanks for your help guys I'll probably go for War Thunder and Warframe and leave Blacklight until its fixed.

Just did abit of browsing and it looks awesome.
Apparently running automatically at the PC's 'ultra' setting. Looks quite nice, wasn't a huge HALO fan but this looks as though I'd really enjoy it.
With regards to how massive the multiplayer is gonna be, is there a figure? Most I've seen on PS4 so far is BF4's 64 player online, is it going to be matching or topping that?
Looks fun.

Just did abit of browsing and it looks awesome.
Apparently running automatically at the PC's 'ultra' setting. Looks quite nice, wasn't a huge HALO fan but this looks as though I'd really enjoy it.
With regards to how massive the multiplayer is gonna be, is there a figure? Most I've seen on PS4 so far is BF4's 64 player online, is it going to be matching or topping that?
Looks fun.

As far as I know it's a couple of thousand people spread over 3 territories but would be interested as too how many actually take part in the game you play or it's just whoever is in your territory or if it's split into different maps within them

Warframe got me. Itīs really fun game if you want to play a cool ninja in space with crazy moves. At the beginning itīs a little bit complex but when u get into it it will hook you up. I have almost managed to build my first own Warframe without any need to buy platinum for real money. Only credits and materials during grinding are necessary and i love that.

As far as I know it's a couple of thousand people spread over 3 territories but would be interested as too how many actually take part in the game you play or it's just whoever is in your territory or if it's split into different maps within them

I can't see each territory being a stand alone server in that case, probably each territory will be split into multiple servers, thus making you chose where you'd rather play I guess.
Can't see a PS4 server handling thousands of gamers,
BF4 struggles on occasion with 64.
That being said, that game is riddled with bugs, so I'm pretty sure a functioning title would be able to run that amount of gamers fairly smoothly.

I can't see each territory being a stand alone server in that case, probably each territory will be split into multiple servers, thus making you chose where you'd rather play I guess.
Can't see a PS4 server handling thousands of gamers,
BF4 struggles on occasion with 64.
That being said, that game is riddled with bugs, so I'm pretty sure a functioning title would be able to run that amount of gamers fairly smoothly.

For PC There are 9 servers world wide. All servers have all factions and territories but players on different servers cannot play with each other.
Not sure on the specs of the servers but I imagine they are many times more powerful in CPU than a PS4 and my PC.

There are some horrible douchebags in Planetside 2. After seeign this thread I thought I would have a game.
I jumped in a vehicle that landed it took off few a few hundred metres then landed and wouldn't move, I can only assume its because he didn't want who ever got in the craft to get out, I dunno.

Planetside 2 does play slightly differently but back then Planetside 1 was simply amazing.

The largest battle I was a part of involved more than 1200 people around a single base. It was a key position on the map and there were about 40 cloaking tanks hiding a shed load of tanks, troops, troop carriers, planes, bombers and more. We all set a time for when we thought the best opportunity was to take the base and all cloaking tanks removed their device and all around the base everyone moved into to the centre. All you could then see were hundreds of the other faction on top of the walls and such trying to fight back - the entire battle lasted for over 3 hours!!! Massive lag fest back then on a 56k modem but goodness me was it a moment I'll never forget and goes down as my favourite gaming moment in history, absolutely epic.

Planetside 2 hasn't quite got that massive feel to it yet as the game doesn't want to work properly on my rig for some reason but when the PS4 version releases I am most definitely going to spend a lot of time on it.

Been playing Warframe and warthunder and I must say both are good Warframe so far is just a run and gun but enjoyable warthunder is a bit more tricky but very enjoyable and I can see more effort for reward in it

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